Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [det] [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Highland pony could carry the average six foot man easily , but he would still look long legged on him even allowing for these ponies ' generous girths . |
| 2 | The two-mile race has been chosen to round off both horses ' preparations for the Arkle Challenge Trophy at the Festival on 16 March . |
| 3 | This had been among the most violent events reported during several weeks ' of clashes between Kirghiz and Uzbeks in Kirghizia 's Osh oblast ( region ) [ see pp. 37540-41 ; 37618 ] . |
| 4 | The top right-hand corner was decorated with small rose leaves interspersed with some ladies ' bedstraw , on which I arranged some geums and cow parsley centres . |
| 5 | In particular , Grolier 's books are famous for gilt stamps on the upper covers : sometimes ‘ Grolierii Lugdunensis et Amicorum ’ ( 'for Grolier of Lyons and his friends ' , Lugdunum being the Latin name , appearing in many publishers ' imprints , for Lyons ) ; sometimes just ‘ Io Grolierii et Amicorum ’ ( for Grolier and his friends ) ; and , almost always on the lower cover , a text from the Vulgate , Psalm cxli . |
| 6 | Although many solicitors offer fixed fee interviews they are given little publicity beyond referral lists and notices in some solicitors ' offices . |
| 7 | There was no Christian architecture before A.D. 200 ; believers gathered together to meet in each others ' homes and used the courtyard fountain for baptism . |
| 8 | Details of these were given out at the April training day and included in that days ' notes . |
| 9 | Keith Fletcher , fielding at gully , shouted in that EastEnders ' accent : ‘ Well done , Greigy , give ‘ im another . ’ |
| 10 | There are others , but these appear on many travellers ' lists of favourite hotels . |
| 11 | It should have the right to initiate legislation for consideration by the Commission and the Committee of Ministers in addition to its existing right to comment on those bodies ' legislative proposals . |
| 12 | With all the ingredients in hand , a regular slot on the weekly network schedule is assigned , and the entire cast meets for several hours ' ’ wood-shed ’ rehearsal where the individual numbers are whittled into shape for the performance . |
| 13 | HOW we could have done with some frogs ' legs among the dire fare served up for national consumption at Stamford Bridge yesterday . |
| 14 | Further investigations will be made into these childrens ' inability to count the number of sounds in a word by tapping them out and their failure to perform rhyme judgements : both tasks which have been thought , hitherto , to be essential to adequate sound-letter mapping . |
| 15 | Regional task forces estimate , however , that the gap between the hours stipulated in most juniors ' contracts and the hours that they will actually work is about five to 10 hours a week . |
| 16 | The balance of the field will be selected from those Tours ' leading money winners . |
| 17 | If we can keep 'Lash and Bash from each others ' throats for long enough there 'll be another round-up of reader queries next issue . |
| 18 | There is , of course , nothing in this paragraph which might not appear in many schools ' booklets . |
| 19 | What disruption carefully organised and constantly renewed bomb attacks would have wreaked upon this communications ' artery ( i.e. the Voie Sacrée ) , crammed to the most extreme limits of its capacity , requires no details . |
| 20 | This small characin can be seen in all dealers ' tanks , their fluorescence guaranteed to catch the eye of fishkeepers . |
| 21 | The first record is in August , when Dista 's representatives suggested the research might explain the bleeding seen in some patients ' stomachs and intestines . |
| 22 | The results will appear on both vendors ' Unix systems in 1994 — Hitachi is a licensee of Hewlett-Packard 's Precision Architecture and is a sponsor member of the Precision RISC Organisation . |
| 23 | The results will appear on both vendors ' Unix platforms in 1994 — Hitachi is a licencee of HP 's PA RISC architecture . |
| 24 | If homoeopathy is such an individual way of treating you — for example , one person with influenza may have quite a different medicine from another person with it — what is the value of homoeopathic remedies now seen on many chemists ' shelves which could be used by people who are not aware that the choice of a remedy has to be selected according to a number of factors , not just by a simple set of symptoms ? |
| 25 | Natural Gas Vehicles were also covered in some detail but as our public relations efforts seem to be hampered by these vehicles ' technical problems it 's difficult to be more positive than we have been . |
| 26 | The methods adopted by these tenants ' associations were those of lobbying and persuasion and the issues they took up were specific grievances affecting their own members , not the problem of housing as it related to the political system in Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | We see the same biochemical processes , the same use of sign stimuli and programmed learning , identical strategies of information processing and storage , the same potential for well-defined cognitive thinking , but very different storage and sorting capacities and , most of all , very different intellectual needs imposed by each species ' niche . |
| 28 | Group welfare officer Sheila Redmond is on hand to help with any employees ' problems — personal or medical . |
| 29 | There is , buried in some agencies ' archives , material — usually based either on reading and noting research ( see page 100 ) or on direct response returns — which shows rather clearly that over a certain size — somewhere around 35 cm × 6 cols in a broadsheet newspaper — diminishing returns begin to set in . |
| 30 | Once or twice when she crept down to the turn in the stairs to see if it was safe to go and get something to eat , she was scared back by the murmur of unfamiliar voices , and saw three or four bicycles parked in the hall , leaning together with their pedals tangled in each others ' spokes , forming an intricate barrier to outside . |